On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:18, John Denker wrote:
> On a related note, can anybody explain why the searches
> http://www.google.com/search?q=stopwatch.xml+site:flightgear.com
Unless flightgear.com is just a typo in this mail then it should be obvious.
^^^
>
> Whether or not such a structural change is possible, a procedural approach
> might be helpful. For example, when committing something new to CVS, it
> would be helpful to post some sort of "advertisement" to the mailing lists.
> An entry in the CVS log that says "stopwatch.xml" is not nearly as useful
> as a message saying what it is, why we should care, how to find usage
> examples, et cetera. As a measure of my sincerity, you may observe that I
> posted such a message about my hackish interval timer. I even put multiple
> synonyms in the subject line, so that would-be users would not have to play
> the Rumplestiltskin game to guess what the thing is called.
Of course one must agree to this and many folks do post a note on the devel
list about new features. How long have you been lurking?
> As another category of data supporting the same general point, according to
>
> http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:flightg
>ear.org there are 1700 places on the flightgear.org site that refer to the
> wrong mailing list (flightgear-devel@flightgear.org).
Or rather the old mailing list. The search returns references to the mailing
list archives. Naturally messages in the archives will contain the old
mailing list address.
> Suggestion 1: Perhaps somebody should walk through the whole project
> workspace and replace each occurrence of the wrong address with the right
> address.
You can't possibly mean replacing every occurence of the old list address in
the archive.
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Roy Vegard Ovesen
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